The Arsenal scene was to deliver a famous evening to the Emirates. The reality was far from there at the end, while the Mikel Arteta team failed against Paris Saint-Germain with a deflation performance.
The nature of their victory over Real Madrid in the quarter -finals has fulfilled arsenal with hope and confidence that their season threatened to move away, they had found another equipment. The story had already been made and they wanted more.
The Emirates were a cauldron of noise in the preparation of the first semi-final of the club in the Champions League for 16 years and the fans were as noisy as this stadium knew him. The fourth minute of Ousmane Dembele cut all this.
Arsenal fans recovered after this brief silence amazed, but let the stadium want more. Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Martinelli had their chances, and there was that Except for Gianluigi Donnarumma, but Arsenal did not do it enough at the end.
Leandro Trossard d’Arsenal missed a great chance against PSG
The reign of Mikel Arteta in Arsenal, whatever the impressive progression, risks becoming a characterized by Miss. The finalists of the Premier League are three years of racing, and now their race in the Champions League which promised so many risks to go out with a groan.
Arteta and David Raya quickly reminded us of this Arsenal performance in the Bernabeu after the match as proof that this team is more than capable of achieving great performance in Europe.
There is no doubt that playing Real Madrid, with the history and status of the club in the Champions League, poses a unique challenge, the one that Arsenal got up with Aplomb. However, it seems quite different.
Arsenal was playing against a fairly disappointing Real Madrid team with more stars than they know what to do. PSG plays a completely different level and surely poses a much larger challenge.
If Arsenal has to deliver the story they want and return to the Champions League final for the first time since 2006, then, as Arteta said after the match, they will have to do something rather special.
Arsenal has taken cold by fast PSG starters
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Clinton Morrison gives his reaction to the first goal of PSG against Arsenal in the Champions League
PSG made 26 assists in advance to Dembele four minutes later. He had the impression that Arsenal had not even touched the ball.
Arsenal pursued shadows for the first 20 minutes. PSG came out of the traps and had almost always had the impression of having their hosts in inferiority. It is rare to see Arsenal so surpassed and surpassed, especially at home.
There were parallels with the quarter -final of PSG at Villa Park a few weeks ago. They lost this match but were aggregated thanks to two goals scored in the first 27 minutes. Arsenal, like Villa, was blown away early by PSG.
Luis Enrique clearly wants his team Blitz his opponent of the Off to catch them cold. The pace in which they play in these moments is, of course, unsustainable in 90 minutes, as Villa shows, which returned to win 3-2 but has failed to level up equality.
This match followed a similar model. Arsenal could not ensure that their domination counts as a villa.
Maybe the misfortune to play the first step at home was a factor. When Villa returned to the match against PSG, they did it knowing that they had nothing to lose, while Arsenal played as if they had the hand in hand sometimes.
By comparing the domination of PSG over the villa at home compared to the return leg, she does not paint an encouraging table for Arsenal in the return leg.
Partey’s return can stimulate the arsenal and release rice
Declan Rice d’Arsenal during the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League, the first step against PSG
One of the reasons for optimism in the second stage for Arsenal will be the return of Thomas Partey.
The midfielder was suspended for defeat at the Emirates after a useless yellow card in the dying stages of the Bernabeu, and his absence was immediately felt against PSG.
For the objective of PSG, Dembele crossed the area of the land of occupies so often, and Arsenal was punished. Everything was too easy.
Party certainly makes Arsenal a better team, but it also allows Declan Rice to return to its more natural box-to-box. It was here that Rice said his authority on Real Madrid. Its impact on the game has been considerably reduced against PSG.
There were times when he threatened to show his quality, but he was largely limited. The combination of Partey and Rice could well be what Arsenal needs to reverse the steam.
What happened to the Arsenal sets?
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta reacts on the sideline during the UEFA Champions League VS PSG semi-final
For a moment, it seemed that Arsenal had benefited from their superiority on PSG when Mikel Merino entered the second half in the second half of Declan Rice until Var intervenes to govern the midfielder offside.
It was one of the rare opportunities that Arsenal made good delivery on Tuesday evening, which was a surprise given the amount of construction of this semi-final focused on the vulnerability of PSG in such scenarios.
In Ligue 1, nearly a third of PSG conceded goals come from sets, a greater proportion than any other part of France. Nor is it a very large side. However, Arsenal could not gather anything to disturb them in the biggest match of their season.
The arsenal yield rate of these scenarios fell in particular in 2025, which will be a painful timing for Arteta, whose team scored 12 goals set in the first 21 games of the Premier League season.
Nicolas Jover, the brain behind the impressive record of the Arsenal’s play, had to be removed by Arteta in time to go too far outside the team’s technical zone. It seemed that the frustrations struggled.
PSG continues their domination in English
Ousmane Dembele de Paris Saint-Germain celebrates the scoring against Arsenal
PSG has now beat four Premier League teams – Man City, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal – during the Champions League campaign this season.
Research until October, when they lost to the Emirates, and such a reality would hardly have been imaginable. Luis Enrique’s team will not recognize himself now. So much has changed since then for Parisians.
Ousmane Dembele, the difference manufacturer this time, was left out for behavioral reasons and still discovering the false position that triggered the best score season of his career.
There was a courage on PSG on their return to the Emirates who was far from the light team who was the victim of intimidation and beaten 2-0 by Arsenal.
Arteta wanted to underline this victory over PSG as a source of confidence in construction, while Luis Enrique considered him to be devoid of meaning given the time spent. The boss of PSG was proven on this count.
His team reached a summit at the right time as they seek to make history. PSG, of course, has never won this competition either.
